Training certified specialist trainer

The concept

This practical training course lays the foundation for your successful work as a specialist trainer. You will acquire versatile mediation and methodological skills and benefit from the opportunities of a constant learning group. After this training course, you will be able to make your training sessions, presentations and moderations more lively and achieve your mediation goals more effectively.

Module 1: Didactic planning

Basics of adult education

• How does learning work for adults?
• Fundamentals of neurological knowledge.
• What do didactics, methodology and learning objectives mean and why are they important?
• From the needs assessment to the training concept.
• Learning objectives, learning objective hierarchy.
• The training guide, creating a concept.
• Planning design: Goal - content - methods - media.
• The initial, the story and the benefit for the participants - clarify relevance.
• Basic attitude as a trainer, human image and role.

Training process

• Different phases of a training course and its methods.
• The HAUFE learning principle.
• Deepening content with the right method (Part 1).
• Methods for ensuring transfer and monitoring learning objectives during the training.

The training follow-up

• Reflection.
• Professional handling of feedback.
• Evaluation and learning objective control (using the example of ErKon - success control).

Initial ideas for the audit concept

Module 2: Methods and media competence

Interactive work with (learning) groups

• Working with groups - enabling insights.
• Basics of group dynamics.

Moderation techniques to activate groups

• Examples of "agile" and interactive workshop moderation.

Lively presentations and a variety of methods for presenting content

• Which method for which topic?
• Deepening content with the right method (Part 2).
• PowerPoint, Prezi and co. or would you prefer "museum and clothesline"?

Blended learning methods - webinars, how does "non-presence learning" work?

• Synchronous (e.g. Adobe Connect) and asynchronous methods (e.g. Blink.it, forum, emails).
• Basics of visualization with "live media".

Tools and exercises.

Module 3+4: Voice - Body language - Effect - Mastering difficult situations and exam preparation

The professional appearance - enticing people to learn

• Didactic imperative for trainer: "Don't be boring!"
• How is impact created?
• Special trainer- "targeted priming".
• Voice training, voice exercises - cold start in the morning, cool down in the evening.
• Playing with emotions.
• "Touching" people without touching them.
• Body language and appearance.
• Didactic use of space and body language.
• Entertainment in training, laughter as a learning turbo.
• Exercise lectures with video feedback.

The first aid kit - mastering difficult seminar situations

• Prevention strategies in preparation and entry scenarios.
• What difficult situations could arise?
• From frequent speakers, co-trainers and superiors...!
• "It's no good anyway!" - Dealing with killer phrases.
• Self-fulfilling prophecy - it will come as we expect!
• Promising intervention options.
• Returns, feedback or "sometimes silence is golden"...
• Practice, practice, practice...!
• Self-reflection and intervision.

Module 5:

Your final thesis: Creating a training concept

You will document your independent work on a training project in a written paper (at least 20 pages). In this way, you will further expand your practical knowledge and ensure direct learning success for your practice.

You are free to choose a training topic that is relevant to you. This paper must be submitted 5 weeks before the examination date.

Module 6:

Final examination 

The examination consists of a 30-minute training sequence and a 20-30-minute examination/reflection discussion.

Examination Committee: Examiners from BDVT eV and the Haufe Akademie .